Aleksandar Katai Named Best Player of Serbian Super League Aleksandar Katai didn’t just win the Serbian Super League season — he practically owned it, and now the league’s coaches and captains have made it official, crowning the Red Star Belgrade forward the best player of the year.

How the award was decided

On May 19, the Serbian Super League announced that Katai had been voted the league’s standout performer in a poll of coaches and captains from all 16 top-flight clubs. Crucially, clubs were barred from voting for their own players, a rule designed to blunt internal bias and make the recognition harder to dismiss as mere club loyalty.

When the ballots were counted, Katai’s dominance was overwhelming: he captured 27 out of a possible 30 votes, a landslide by any standard in a league often split along fierce club lines.

What Katai did on the pitch

The veteran forward has just completed one of the defining campaigns of his career. With Red Star, he secured the domestic double, lifting both the league title and the national cup. He also helped drive the club into the Europa League’s spring knockout phase — a benchmark of continental relevance for Serbian football.

At home, he was ruthless: Katai finished the season as the Super League’s top scorer with 24 goals, the kind of output that turns an MVP debate into a formality.

The wider field — and the spin

Pro-government-leaning outlets rushed to frame the verdict as unquestionable, hailing the decision as “FULLY DESERVED!” in banner headlines. The voting spread reinforces that narrative: beyond Katai, only a handful of others — Red Star teammates Rade Krunic and Vasilije Kostov, plus Zeleznicar’s Sylvester Jasper and Zoran Popovic — scraped together the remaining votes.

In the end, this wasn’t a contested coronation. It was a confirmation of what the season had already made plain: in Serbian football’s top tier, 2025–26 belonged to Aleksandar Katai.